Getting Cold This Time of Year is a self-conscious subtext to the mismatched subjectivities of social interaction in the Festival setting. Timepieces modified to only display the passing of seconds are to be distributed personally by the artist as an unintelligible metadata complementing her interactions with others during the course of the event. Each piece is accompanied by a printed text outlining a set of rhetorical instructions to trace the conversation at hand.

The passing of seconds as a record of the present becomes by virtue of its transmission also a monitor of presence. As a cycle, these conversations, their materiality and the seconds may linger. They may be passed down in either fantastic or deteriorated forms. They may extend beyond one minute in length to follow their natural course.

Supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.